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  • 94.01
    Unleashing the Creative Reservoir: The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited by Richard Florida “A new social compact—a Creative Compact—can turn our Creative Economy into a just and Creative Society, in which prosperity is widely shared. While driven and shaped...

  • 94.02
    Build This: Your Culturematic Laboratory by Grant McCracken “Ruled by pragmatism and play, your laboratory is fast becoming the place you come to look out into the future. This the bridge from which you can look at your possible outcomes,...

  • 94.03
    The Shattering: How We Get From Where We Are to What and Who We Need to Be—A Non-Illustrated Guide to Becoming Honest by Erika Napoletano “The Shattering is the moment where everything familiar slips away. Our protective facades of familiarity...

  • 94.04
    Let’s Make Leadership Real Again by Mike Figliuolo “What has happened to leadership? With all the crises and challenges we face and the increasingly risk-averse environment in which we operate, leadership has become generic, ephemeral, and bland. We have devolved...

  • 94.05
    The Face-to-Face Manifesto: Back to the Future by Ed Keller & Brad Fay “The fact is that online social networking is no substitute for the power and impact of face-to-face communications. Real world conversations—most of which take place face-to-face—are still...

  • 94.06
    Rebooting America's Innovation Engine: Using Jugaad to Innovate Faster, Better, and Cheaper by Navi Radjou “The motto ‘innovate or die’ held true for American firms in the 20th century. In the 21st century, ‘innovate faster, better, and cheaper—or die’ will...

  • 93.01
    Nine Things I Learned from Alan Mulally by Bryce G. Hoffman “I spent many hours sitting across the table from Mulally in his corner office on the twelfth floor of Ford’s world headquarters. I learned a lot about how to...

  • 93.02
    Stop Selling and Start Storytelling by Jason L. Baptiste “Successful entrepreneurs are never selling, and always storytelling. Throughout this manifesto, I want to focus on how an entrepreneur can use storytelling to persuade four key constituents that can ultimately make...

  • 93.03
    Becoming China’s Bitch: A Radical Centrist Manifesto for Fixing What’s Broken by Peter D. Kiernan “Where do I get off using a title like that? Because the time has come to get you out of your comfort zone. In fact,...

  • 93.04
    We Say We Want a Revolution: How to Activate the Activist and Surf the Tidal Wave of Radical Change by Gina Amaro Rudan “I confess—the revolutionary climate we’re experiencing right now excites me. Why? Because every monster economic crisis or...


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